Electronic Controls Engineer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Electronic Controls Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure Zero Lost Time/Zero Recordable Incidents in Area;
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, industry, and various program;
- Support Management of Change throughout the mill. Collaborate with peers to develop KPIs around MOC implementation and effectiveness;
- Provide technical expertise in troubleshooting operating systems;
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Production Manager;
- Develop and maintain control logic modification process;
- Test, inspect, and adjust control instrumentation and determine causes of instrument malfunction;
- Coordinate the collection of SSOP, LO/TO procedures and safe work practices associate with the area and cataloging of them in appropriate system;
- Design and develop graphical user screens utilized within human machine interfaces (HMI’s);
- Develop and implement plans to reduce exposure to area hazards;
- Participate in Accident/Incident Investigation;
- Modify control system logic and industrial machinery to optimize equipment performance and control;
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair instrument, electronic, and electrical equipment on the site to manufacturers specifications;
- Perform oversight of OEM control and electrical modifications;
- Complete required Safety Participation.
Requirements:
- Familiar with conveyors, short cycle press systems, drying equipment, pumps, gearboxes, etc;
- Ability to define and configure devices on network through software interface;
- Startup/operational support experience for high volume industrial manufacturing operations;
- Experience working with Siemens S7 PLC software and Siemens Master Drives with vector and motion control;
- Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and documentation;
- Pneumatic and Hydraulic Systems Operation;
- Ability to convert PLC5 hardware and software to Control logix;
- Control system upgrade experience;
- In-depth knowledge of the electrical and/or instrument/control craft typically gained through considerable hands-on work experience;
- In-depth Knowledge of Control Logix and RS Logix programming, hardware, and firmware;
- Knowledge of the design and configuration of control systems using ControlNet, Device Net and Ethernet I/P.